PETITIONERS IN 1877 TO ST. LOUIS MAYOR H. OVERHOLZ
TO BE A CANDIDATE FOR RE-ELECTION
Copied by Robert M. Doerr, Editor, Missouri State Genealogical Association Journal

1 Copied from Anzeiger des Westens Sonntagsblatt, 18 Mar 1877, Supplement, pages 5-7. Published in St. Louis, Missouri. Original at St. Louis Public Library. Microfilm at State Historical Society of Missouri.
2 A search revealed no other newspaper that had published this list.

Signers include William C Coy

Death listed in "Deaths Outside the City Vol. 2, pg 98" of the StL Death Registers

From the Memphis Daily Appeal - 22 Sep 1872, pg 1 col 3 "River Soundings"
A Kansas City exchange says the live freight on the Alice is immense; for instance: the first engineer,Abraham Coy,weighs two hundred and eighty pounds, gross. The second engineer, William Coy, weighs three hundred and forty-six pounds, besides being six feet five inches in hight[sic]. ...

Cairo Citizen
Saturday, 19 Sep 1903:
Thomas W. McRaven, an old resident of McClure, died at his home in Current View, Mo., on Aug. 19th, and his remains were brought here for interment. He left a wife and three children. His brother, Dr. P. H. McRaven, was at his bedside when he died and accompanied the remains to its old home. His health had been failing for three years. He held a policy for $1,500 in the Equitable Insurance Co.

Message Received by His Brother, Dr. P. H. McRaven, Who Was in Cairo, Calling Him Home.

Benjamin McRaven, a prominent citizen of McClure, in this county, was frozen to death last night. The news of his death came to his brother, Dr. P. H. McRaven, who was in Cairo today, in a telegraphic message summoning him to come at once and bring Coroner McManus. How it happened, the dispatch did not say. He was well when Dr. McRaven left home Sunday. Dr. McRaven left for McClure this afternoon.

Mr. McRaven was about 36 years of age and leaves a wife and three children.

Cairo Citizen - 20 Apr 1893
Washington McRaven Dead.
In our issue of March 30th we mentioned the serious illness of Mr. Washington McRaven of Wheatland. He died April 3rd. Mr. McRaven was one of the oldest citizens of Alexander County and must have been about seventy years of age. He left a widow and one child, the wife of George W. Childress and several grandchildren, whose parents have died. He was a good citizen and his death was a loss to the community in which he lived.

Came from England as a servant in the family of Mr Thomas Bittlestone, in whose recorded will
it provided that his wife, Elizabeth, shall have the services of his boy, John Swan, and shall pay
him five pounds. John, the immigrant, married Rebecca Palfrey, and had a grant of land in Cambridge
of 20 acres.

Four sons of Arthur and Lucretia served in Company C, 10th Regiment of the Confederate Arkansas Infantry during the Civil War; LG, EAJ, DT, and FM. They were known as the "Choctaw Riflemen" of Van Buren County, and enlisted July 16, 1861 at Springfield, Arkansas. E. Andrew Jackson died in 1862 during his service in Atlanta, Georgia. LG was discharged 29 March 1862 "by Surgeon's Certificate"; he must have been sick or injured. DT and FM became Prisoners Of War, being captured inJuly 1863 at Fort Henderson, LA. Both returned to Van Buren, Arkansasat the end of the war.